Lady Gaga's Dishwashing Gloves

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Lady Gaga's Dishwashing Gloves refers to a pair of red leather gloves worn by singer-songwriter Lady Gaga at the 87th Academy Awards held in late February 2015, which inspired a photoshop meme on Twitter poking fun at the accessory for resembling a pair of rubber dishwashing gloves.

Origin

On February 22nd, 2015, Lady Gaga walked the red carpet at the 87th Academy Awards while wearing a white Azzedine Alaia dress and red leather gloves (shown below, left). Shortly after, Twitter user Jon-Michael Poff^[1] tweeted a photograph of a pair of red grill gloves juxtaposed next to a picture of Lady Gaga on the red carpet, gaining over 450 retweets and 380 favorites in the first 24 hours (shown below, right).

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That evening, other Twitter users began posting photoshopped images of Gaga appearing as if she were washing dishes in a kitchen. Meanwhile, Twitter user Nate Gilbert^[7] tweeted an illustration of the comic book super hero Captain America next to a photo of Lady Gaga on the red carpet, comparing the costumed crime fighter's signature red gloves to those worn by the pop star (shown below, left). Less than an hour later, the @gagadaily^[8] Twitter feed highlighted several notable examples of the photoshop meme (shown below, right). In less than 24 hours, the tweets gained more than 320 and 1,000 retweets respectively.

Also on February 22nd, the hashtag #LadyGagaOscars2015^[10] began trending worldwide on Twitter.^[9] In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to the gloves, including LAist,^[2] Mashable,^[3] Cosmopolitan,^[4] Bustle^[5] and Daily Mail.^[6]

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